Checking this box creates rows with alternating colors. The Alternate row shading property comes with two additional properties, Even row band size and Odd row band size . The 'even' and 'odd' refer to the alternating colors. The number after each property indicates how many grid rows each color band encompasses. The default setting for both color bands is 1.

The custom alternate Grid view allows you create expressions that will be processed from the data in the grid display and an Xbasic function to turn the arrays of expression values into an actual view. This is the infrastructure that allowed Alpha Software to turn a Google Map Component into a Google Map alternate view.

This video continues from GM2. The video shows how the icon for each marker that is placed on the map can be dynamically specified. So, for example, if record 1 in the Grid was for a customer with a low credit rating, the corresponding icon on the map might be red. If record 2 was for a customer with a high credit rating, the corresponding icon on the map might be green.